The Leaf is safe in or around water. I charge my Leaf outside, I have run through water and storms, charged my Leaf in storms. I feel perfectly safe in it. It probably will wade through water better then a gas car. Does not need air and a gas car needs electricity to run also and can short out. I noticed all the plugs related to the Leaf look water tight in a big way.

During the tsunami in Japan there were hundreds of gas cars that caught on fire. I remember seeing pictures of dozens of Infinity sedans all burned up. They were sitting in the parking lot awaiting shipping when the tsunami hit. This can happen during such a stressful event regardless of whether the car is gas or electric. It's a disaster zone here in NJ.

@spec: no, actually, a bunch of Toyotas burned at the same port.

Eighty houses burned in Queens, for that matter.

I'd recommend not parking either your car, or your house, in the Atlantic ocean.

@Bill Howland: I'm still told that the "cogging" thing is software and that they have a software fix for it. Of course they said that quite a while ago, but they swear the fix is coming out now. We'll see...

Man, Fisker just can't help keeping out of the news for all the wrong reasons! What I hope to see, instead, is success stories regarding EVs in the wake of Superstorm Sandy, such as folks who managed to run their houses off their car's battery bank and/or recharging with home solar PV panels, while waiting for the power to come back on. I'm sure at least a few of those incidents are occurring.

Glad to hear You're doing well, Tom.

Thanks for posting the link ex. I haven't been around here much because I have limited internet access. It's a disaster area here. Some are starting to get power back, but it's slow going because of the level of destruction in some areas.
My home is in a particularly bad hit area. It still looks like somebody dropped a bomb, and it's five days later. I do have a generator that powers my whole home (natural gas) so I'm OK and can charge my car fine. I can't imagine when we'll get power back from the utility though. My whole block has at least 30% of the telephone poles snapped and laying in the road tangled in downed trees. 13 trees fell on my property but luckily none hit my house. I have neighbors that don't have heat, power or water staying at my house. I had to cut my way to main roads on Tuesday morning with my neighbors and chainsaws or the town would never get to us. It's really nuts.
The crazy thing is my restaurant didn't lose power although all around it did. It's bizarre how the grid works like a jigsaw puzzle. People with LEAF's and Volts are coming by to charge up on my chargers all the time. The gas lines are crazy and sometimes a mile long. Most stations have no power so they can't pump even thought they have gas and the few open run out in a couple hours. There are police stationed at every gas station to control the crowds, it's a good time to drive an EV!
I'll check back when I have internet access again and time to post.

@Bill Howland: considerate vs inconsiderate is not a geographical issue. I've run into both kinds pretty much everywhere.

Many years ago when I lived in the greater DC area I got caught in one of the infrequent "large" snowstorms (roughly a foot of snow, no big deal here in Utah but just one inch will paralyze DC :-) ) and had to park off the side of a street just like approximately 40 million other vehicles. The next morning when I trudged out through the snow to the car, there were parking tickets on every single vehicle. Luckily my ticket had the right plate number but the wrong state, so I could just ignore it....

You're welcome, Bill. I can finally see your photo. It would be nice if more of our regulars shared an image of themselves or their cars here.

Great NYT story by Brad regarding Tom's story. Thanks for the link, ex-EV1. One of the side stories I've been hearing this week concerns gasoline stations in the NY and NJ area that have fuel to spare, but no electricity to make their pumps work. I'll be interested to see what sort of infrastructure improvements we'll be witnessing in the northeast US following the big cleanup.

hummmm just checked the "Secrets of NY Sewers", looks like it wont be fully completed until 2020. So maybe that's why they had all that flooding since the system isn't operational yet. Any NYers here with better info? Im 350 miles northwest